In 2011, a group of ten academics, accompanied by Sonia Verdu<\/strong>, associate director, CIBER, traveled to Mumbai and Bangalore from January 1st<\/sup> through 9th<\/sup>. George Washington University\u2019s CIBER co-sponsored the program.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery time I go to India, I see a booming economy and a strong belief among the citizens that it is becoming an emerging power,\u201d said Kundu, who led the FDIB for the third time. \u201cThis has been reiterated time and again by the top brass of Indian companies as well as multinational corporations operating in India. The depth of managerial talent is tremendous and India is on its way to becoming a world economic power.\u201d<\/p>\n During their stay in Mumbai, the group toured Siemens and Welspun Limited. In Bangalore, they had a plant tour of Caterpillar, a presentation at Infosys Limited titled \u201cInnovation Co-Creation for Building Tomorrow\u2019s Enterprise\u201d and a visit to information technology services company Mphasis. They also interacted with colleagues from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.<\/p>\n Experience exceeds expectations of first-time FDIB attendee.<\/em><\/p>\n The third member of the College of Business Administration contingent, Sungu Armagan<\/strong>, who teaches organizational behavior, signed up for the trip thinking she would learn more about how the country\u2019s culture plays a role in business, an important aspect of her specialty.<\/p>\n \u201cI certainly got that, and I got so much more,\u201d she said. \u201cThe program is aptly named because it truly helped me develop as a faculty member. I even changed a course requirement to make my classes more practical, drawn from the companies and the culture we visited.\u201d<\/p>\n Even a visit to a slum in Mumbai, requested by one of the participants, deepened her business perspective.<\/p>\n \u201cI was struck by a recycling business that was operating there and got to see its impact on everyone involved,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n [set_id=72157625830006657] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite the impact of the global economic slowdown, the economy of India is outpacing many other countries. That\u2019s just one aspect of the country that makes it a fascinating and essential place for business faculty to experience firsthand. Since 2008, the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at Florida International University (FIU) has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[374,435,1788,2459,2514,2518],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23908,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions\/23908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/tn_FDIB_1.jpg\" "\\"IF\\"")
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